MANUFACTURING
Various dignitaries attended the ribbon cutting of the new facility.
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area in positive ways,” City Electric Supply
President and CEO Thomas Hartland-
Mackie said. “This is only the beginning of
this new chapter in our history. My hope
is that we’ll continue strengthening our
relationships with each other, with our
neighbors and with the City of Port St.
Lucie and the State of Florida.”
More than 250 TAMCO Group employees
and local city officials attended the
building’s unveiling Jan. 28, including
Mayor Gregory J. Oravec, St. Lucie County
Commissioner Cathy Townsend, Port St.
Lucie City Councilwoman Jolien Caraballo
and the president of the Economic Development
Council, Pete Tesch.
“Not only did TAMCO Group invest $38
million in Port St. Lucie, it will also add 50
new jobs,” Tesch said. “This project kept
more than 200 existing jobs from leaving
the state. Great coordination from the city,
county, state and CareerSource Research
Coast kept this company, one of the largest
electrical component manufacturers in
the country, here in St. Lucie County.”
Frank McShane, co-vice president of
operations, started working for Tamlite
Lighting, which is now one of TAMCO
Group’s six manufacturing brands, in Redditch,
United Kingdom, in 1990. McShane
later transferred to Tamlite in Port St. Lucie
in 2005 and helped bring all of the manufacturing
brands under one management
by creating TAMCO Group in 2014.
“Over these 30 years, I’ve seen the company
evolve and grow at an amazing pace,”
McShane said. “We went from six, seven
original staff members just 15 years ago, to
now employing over 200.”
The in-house brand of City Electric Supply
(CES), TAMCO operates six divisions:
Tamlite Lighting and Fusion Lamps, which
manufacture lighting fixtures, accessories
and lamps; and F4P, RPP, MCG and Centaur
Electrical Installation, which sell electrical
supplies and consumables exclusively
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